WHO WE ARE:

Next Level Games is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nintendo Co., Ltd.
We’ve been passionate about video game development for over 20 years now, shipping award-winning games for fans across the world and still going strong. Some of our titles include Super Mario Strikers, Mario Strikers Charged, Punch-Out!!, Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, Metroid Prime Federation Force, Luigi’s Mansion 3 and most recently Mario Strikers™: Battle League.
At NLG, we believe that a project finds success when we collaborate. Therefore, we place careful consideration on building an environment where everyone feels welcome and has fun in the process of achieving our shared goals.

We are currently looking for an experienced and passionate Material Artist who is excited to join our team! You will play a key role in executing the unique artistic style and creating materials that have major impact on the experiences we create. Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Collaborate with the Art Director, Senior Material Artist and Environment Art team members to create materials that fulfill the art vision for the project
• Use industry-leading techniques creating assets that set an inspirational quality bar for the team
• Texture benchmark environment assets and work with Environment and Lighting Artists to set metrics for consistency across all materials in the game
• Play a large part in the look and feel of our next exciting title
• Maintain and communicate a strong knowledge of innovative game production technologies and the capabilities/ limitations of these technologies as they relate to the project goals
• Test and proactively troubleshoot areas that are not working in the game engine and help to fix them
• Maintain and constantly improve your artistic skills and foster a creative working environment